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Data, the Creation of History and Its Impact on Real Lives Data, the Creation of History and its Impact on Real Lives Christine Kenneally 14th International Digital Curation Conference 5 February 2019 History and Real Lives • How does history shape us? • How do we know what we know? HOW WHAT WE KNOW SHAPES WHO WE THINK WE ARE A case where even today there is an devastating absence of personal information Plight of orphans seeking information from the government 2012 International Congress on Archives (Brisbane) “The Forgotten Ones” The Monthly, August 2012 “We Saw Nuns Kill Children: The Ghosts of St. Joseph’s Catholic Orphanage” Buzzfeed News, August 2018 Case study: US, Australia Commonalities and Differences • Data curators • Powerful individuals • Justice (transitional, legal) • Journalism, scholarship The critical significance of data curation in a democracy 1. The very great importance of truth to individuals 2. Institutions, even in open, democratic societies, can destroy and rewrite important truths 3. Data curators are frontline guardians to the bedrock of society The world of orphanages • Australia, New Zealand, England, Scotland, Ireland, Canada, US • 19th century, religious, state run • Numbers are hard to quantify • Australia: ½ million children in over 2,000 institutions • US: Over 5 million children in over 3,000 institutions • Numbers peaked in the 1930’s, and declined from the 1960’s • By the 1980’s few remained The world of orphanages • Significant economic and social entities • Used as flagship institutions for charity drives and fund raising, bequests • Recipients of governmental funding • A source of unpaid labor • A source of victims for predators This world virtually disappeared • Effectively replaced by foster care, other HOW? How does an entire system shaping millions of lives disappear from history? WHY? HOW: Forces against preservation of history • Children are the victims • Lack resources to validate experience • Negative experience with orphanage creates distrust in other institutions • Disbelief in own experience • Disbelief by adults • Abuse: traumatizing, stigmatizing, physically damaging, and memory impairing • Withholding of information by institutions Other forces against the preservation of history • Staff, public reactions • Creation of records • Storage and preservation of records • Withholding of records Types of care-leaver records • Birth records • Care-leavers’ case/other files (correspondence, social worker reports, other documentation) • School reports • Medical records • Photographs (individual, family, group) • Accurate historical accounts about the institutions themselves 1990’s: Waking up, two different paths • Individuals start to act • Police interest • People start to ask for their own records • Activist groups form • Beginnings of scholarship, journalism • Beginnings of legal action Commonalities and Differences • Data curators • Powerful individuals • Justice (transitional, legal) • Journalism US story • Individuals start to act Joey Barquin • Police interest • People start to ask for their own Little response, highly redacted records • Activist groups form Relatively uncritical, limited in • Beginnings of scholarship, scope, news reporting journalism Civil, criminal, statute of limitations • Beginnings of legal action Australian story • Individuals start to act Leonie Sheedy, Frank Golding • Police interest • People start to ask for their own records CLAN • Activist groups form Relatively uncritical, limited in • Beginnings of scholarship, scope, news reporting, “Orphans journalism of the Empire” Civil, criminal, statute of • Beginnings of legal action limitations, state and federal inquiries Find and Connect “…a national web resource…” “…the largest non-military public history project in Australia” “…a major experiment in writing history in the digital domain” “…living and responsive.” Shurlee Swain Historian, Emeritus Professor at Australian Catholic University Stakeholders as Subjects: The Role of Historians in the Development of Australia’s Find & Connect Web Resource, The Public Historian, Vol 36, Nov. 4, Nov 2014 Find and Connect “ … a completely novel information provider, evidence- base, and story repository.” Gavan McCarthy Associate Professor, Director eScholarship Research Centre, University of Melbourne Find and Connect “CLAN was the first Find & Connect.” Leonie Sheedy Co-founder and Executive Officer of Care Leavers Australasia Network CLAN, OAM, St. Catherine's Orphanage, Geelong 1957- 1971 Find and Connect “In essence, we want to know why what happened to us as children happened. The archived records represent a warehouse of hope where we will find answers to these questions that have nagged away at us, all the years of our adulthood.” Frank Golding Author, Historian, OAM, Ballarat Orphanage 1943-1953 Find and Connect “The Find & Connect web resource is dynamic, highly curated, challenging and rewarding; and grapples with fundamental questions about knowledge and information. The Find & Connect web resource is just one element within larger networks and conversations taking place in Australia and internationally.” Kirsten Wright Program Manager, Find & Connect web resource, eScholarship Research Centre Find and Connect • Responsivity • Evolution • Needs • Processes How does it feel to receive your records? THANK YOU.
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